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Time signatures have nothing to do with intonation. I think you're using the term incorrectly. They also have nothing to do with any of the criticism in this mix because I'm pretty sure this mix is in 4/4 time. Just thought I'd throw that out there. As for the lead lacking "punch," it's not a philosophical criticism about what it represents in relation to Chunli or your conceptual approach; the lead sucks because it has very little presence or definition. Weak attack, thin sound, etc. It gets lost in the soundscape. I'm talking about it on a technical level. And yes, I listen to a lot of Indian music; my parents are Indian and my dad has quite a collection. Regardless of how Reason's synth behaves by default, the sitar in this mix is out of tune, because you haven't taken the rest of the song into any kind of ragga mode. Your mix is in a traditional Western minor key and the scooping and pitch bends (i.e the "twang") don't work because the notes don't always lock in and settle diatonically, even though the melody you're playingis a regular old minor key melody. I highly doubt you're intentionally delving into rearranging the melody with semi-tones and quarter-tones.

I am a Judge here at OCR and I support ReMix:ThaSauce. SO SHOULD YOU!!!

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Yeah seriously: don't underestimate the technical majors (science/engineering). When taught properly, they are brutual.

Lay off. The guy is asking for help. Nothing wrong with that. I do suggest you try it yourself, for your own benefit, but if someone wants to help you that's fine too.

Nice job getting off topic, noobs. The OP is taking about scoring, not putting out albums. Writing for games, films, commercials, and websites is work. You put time into writing music and you get paid for that. How hard is that to understand? Do you go to your job and tell your boss "hey, don't pay me, because I love what I do and I do it for the love of the job." No. You take your paycheck and wait for the next one.

Last night in Granary was amazing.

These types of comments are a waste. Looks like the OP decided to cancel. Closed.

You can't "release" stuff in Community unless you're a posted remixer. Moved to WIP&R.

From the Request Guidelines:

New Spoiler?

I'm more excited for the ending of Batman RIP. OK not really. But I read comics and you don't.

No DarkeSax? I'm insulted.

But everyone on the internet will get all up in arms and completely indignant when Squenix shuts down fan-projects to do the same thing.

Post an MP3 or something. It's not hard to find hosting; I recommend pownce.com. Your sitar is out of tune; there are a lot of intonation problems. Don't write that off as being part of the natural sitar sound, because it's not. A sitar can be played in tune. It's also too quiet/low-pitched. Take it up an octave or bring the volume up; it's getting lost in the mix. The lead playing the SF3 theme is really weak and suffers from some timing issues. It has no bite, no punch, no presence. The melody is also different from the original. It's a six note melody; it shouldn't be hard to replicate. For the sake of example, let's say we're in A minor: you've written the melody as "A C D C A C" when it's actually "A C D G A B." You've gotta come down lower than the root in the second three notes. That's what characterizes the melody. As for drums, they are repetitive. You can't go back and listen to the original and say "well that didn't do much, so I'm not really gonna do much either." You're not making the original, you're making a remix for OCR, so change it up some more (and don't say I'm being inconsistent here with my remarks from the previous paragraph; melodic interpretation and percussive variation are apples and oranges).

It's from Final Fantasy IV.

You know they're still working on the game right? I mean, what they're showing you isn't coming out tomorrow.

Word; but by the same token, I wouldn't mind a Chrono Tactics spin-off game.

I was just trying out the admin menu. One thing that's really not so great is that you have to be really careful about selecting options; I've noticed that if I hold down a number key for any more than a split second, the input carries over to the next menu. I accidentally changed maps by just pressing "1." Any way we can get some kind of delay in there or non-repeating input?

Those headphones had better be waterproof.

Requests belong in Requests...moved.

Ugh, Quake soundbytes? Really?

http://www.rpgamer.com/news/Q3-2008/070208a.html "Chrono Trigger DS will feature the classic multiple endings that it is famous for and will be unchanged at its core. Yasunori Mitsuda's score will return as will Akira Toriyama's character designs. The new additions to this version are dual screen presentation, touch screen functionality, a brand new dungeon, and an unspecified wireless play mode."

Discussing non-vg music in the Community forum is never unnecessary. I wish people would do it more.